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On AI use, well

A thread on what it takes to use AI as a tool without being made hollow by it. The vibe coder is the failure mode this thread keeps returning to: fluent in prompting, illiterate in building, fluent in shipping, unable to fix what shipped. The opening entry is the **AI Usage Constitution** — the personal contract under which all the author's projects are written. Future entries: case studies, postmortems, knowledge-debt logs, revisions to the Constitution as the standard moves.

essay·2026-05-17
The AI Usage Constitution
How I keep AI in its multiplier role and out of its replacement role. The personal contract under which I write code, do research, and use the tool that could either make me a senior builder or stop me from ever becoming one.